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September 25, 2011
Colgante bridge tragedy forgotten by this generation

NAGA CITY – As the 9-day religious festivity of the Lady of Peñafrancia was concluded on Sunday (Sept. 18),  families of the victims of the 1972 “Colgante Bridge Tragedy” publicly lamented that all these years no memorial services have been held to remember  the 134 victims, who died when the Colgante bridge collapsed during the fluvial procession in the afternoon of September 16, 1972, 5 days before the late Philippine strong-man, President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared Martial Law.

NAGA CITY – As the 9-day religious festivity of the Lady of Peñafrancia was concluded on Sunday (Sept. 18),  families of the victims of the 1972 “Colgante Bridge Tragedy” publicly lamented that all these years no memorial services have been held to remember  the 134 victims, who died when the Colgante bridge collapsed during the fluvial procession in the afternoon of September 16, 1972, 5 days before the late Philippine strong-man, President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared Martial Law.

September 25, 2011
The Colgante Bridge Tragedy of 1972 and the theft of Peñafrancia image

Bicolanos like the rest of the Filipinos are supposed to be happy people. We shun gloom, when it relates to the Penafrancia celebration. A diet of ginota’an na gulay, chili, and doses of wicked weather make our fiestas more fun. For each favor we ask the Virgin, we have a positive answer to hope for.

Bicolanos like the rest of the Filipinos are supposed to be happy people. We shun gloom, when it relates to the Penafrancia celebration. A diet of ginota’an na gulay, chili, and doses of wicked weather make our fiestas more fun. For each favor we ask the Virgin, we have a positive answer to hope for.